Rushing out to enroll some courses without knowing what you are doing is not smart way! If you are investing in a twenty dollars course, simply to get a feel for the enroll process, it’s no big deal. But it is still important to follow, because this is basic homework for each successful lecturer who want to make money by teaching online.
Once you learn the process, not only will you not make serious enrolling errors (or not as many), you will also learn how to be a more powerful lecturer. Here are the key elements:
Course Title and DescriptionObviously it is the student’s responsibility to know what he is buying. If you have any questions, ask, ask, ask!
Lecturer (course provider) profile
The most important thing you can do is to know who you are buying from. ForteMall, for example, has an elaborate system of lecturer reputation.
Good reputation is absolutely critical to successful selling courses! You can see that your entire history as a lecturer is displayed for all to see. This method keeps people honest, and prevents sleazy people from harming students.
Students have five choices for reputation, from one star to five stars, the one and two stars are represented negative comment, and the four stars and five stars are represented positive comment, the three stars represented neutral.
Any student wishing to give negative reputation comment must have a transaction number, or he cannot give the reputation comment. This means only if student had the real transaction with the lecturer, he can leave the reputation comment to the lecturer.
This is a way of protecting lecturers from spiteful people. When you move into the lecturer’s role, remember, if you want to receive (positive) reputation comments, you need to give it! The reputation mechanism, however, is not always clear. There are sometimes a lot of very confusing directions for finding your student or lecturer to give reputation comment.
For example, you might be asked for the course listing ID of the transaction you are seeking. It might have been weeks since the course transaction was completed and you can’t easily access this information.
Solution? To locate the transactions on ForteMall, try to login to your Member Area – Enrolling – Enrolled Courses (if you are student) or Member Area – Hosting – Sold Seats (if you are lecturer). You can find the transactions. In the column of “Options”, you can leave the reputation to your transaction partner by click “Leave Comments” link.
There is another place you can find the transaction that you have not given to reputation comments to your transaction partner. You can login to your Member Area – Reputation – Leave Comments page. Here you can find all the transactions that you have not given the reputation comments. Click “Proceed” link in “Options” column to leave the comments.
In most cases, it is quite smooth to leave the reputation comments to others or receive the reputation comments from others. But what if a student unfairly maligns you?
First of all, she can only give you one negative point, although she can load up your reputation with unflattering comments. Secondly, the lecturer always has a chance to reply.
As a student, you have the responsibility to use reputation fairly. If you don’t, you may be on the receiving end of some pretty tough criticism when you are in the lecturer’s role.
Here are some suggestions to use the reputation system :Wait until the transaction is complete before you comment. Don’t be too hasty to give negative reputation comment (there are only specific circumstances where reputation comment can be withdrawn). You can’t leave reputation comment for yourself.
Don’t ever threaten others with reputation comment. That’s a quick way to get thrown-off the site.
Before you enroll anything, do your best to understand the value of what you are buying. Of course, value is truly in the eye of the beholder. But there are ways to educate yourself.
There is a lot of Internet information about all kinds of courses. Try to use the free information to assess the value. For example, you can search the same courses via ForteMall inside, or even through Google, it is great help to compare if the course content and the course enroll price is reasonable.
If you are enrolling a course, it must be because you are interested in this area. To become a successful online teaching player, you must be knowledgeable about your particular interest. So use every available resource at your disposal.
Budget limitsSet your enroll price limit and stick to it unless there is an absolutely compelling and rational reason for doing otherwise. If there is a course it’s enroll price is too high, be care about it.